The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by rea:

"its-with-an-apostrophe-after-the-s" basically doesn't exist.

If we are writing possessive pronouns, its' apostrophes are omitted. :)

I had the most delicious grilled silk purse the other day . . .

Defeated legionaires from Crassus' army at Carrhae are sold into slavery by the Persians to msyterious strangers. The strangers turn out to be aliens, who use the Romans to subdue low-tech planets--the aliens all belong to a trade league that prohibits high tech interference with other cultures. Between deployments, the Romans are kept at a secret base on a remote Siberian island . . .

Didn't David Drake already write this book?

All you really need to know about Leon Kass is that he thinks ice cream cones are immoral, and a sign of the degeneracy of western civilization:

http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2003_07.html#000019

There is a person who goes by Quinn, "The Eskimo!".

Ev'rybody's building the big ships and the boats,
Some are building monuments,
Others, jotting down notes,
Ev'rybody's in despair,
Ev'ry girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,
Ev'rybody's gonna jump for joy.
Come all without, come all within,
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-o I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair get me to the show
Hurry hurry hurry before I go loco
I can't control my fingers I can't control my toes
Oh no no no no no

will Shetterly back @ 144: the answer, Mytilene, which several others have given, brings us full circle--the town was largely inhabited by Lesbians. :)

Of course the bittersweet aspect of the story is that the next time the Athenians voted to execute an entire city, Melos, there was no reprieve.

Congratulations, and enjoy it while you can, before us gays ruin it for everyone. :(

As for Carter and the rabbit, well, Napoleon got attacked by rabbits, too, and nobody (other than possibly Josephine) called him a wimp!

http://www.strategypage.com/cic/docs/cic104b.asp

The droghte of Marche is somewhat oppressive hereabouts already--we could use some Aprille shoures sote to perce it to the rote.

Not likely to make much national news, I know, but Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Clifford Taylor got upset, changing the balance of power on a court that issued a lot of 4-3 crazy rightwingnut decisions over the last decade or so.

McCAIN:
Thou losest labour:
As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,
To a natural-born citizen.

OBAMA:
Despair thy charm;
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Obama was from his mother's womb
Untimely ripp'd--in Kenya.

Paint almost dry . . .

Avedaggio--our newly painted bedroom is almost dry; thank you for asking . . . updates later.

Wishful thinking and groupthink and echo chambers and American PravdaFox News weren't remotely enough to change the reality, which was that the country was pretty closely balanced between the two parties.

Ah, but remember this:

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

"Michigan Republicans denied using foreclosure lists to cast doubt about voters’ qualifications," says the article. Oh, really?

"The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.

“'We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,' party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week."

http://michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote

Fragano's theory states that I am a duplicate copy but do not know it. Yet. Will the duplicates begin to malfunction? And will the malfuction be of the Westworld kind?(yes, I'm dating myself to hell and gone)

Trust me--if you're dating yourself, you're malfunctioning already. You're supposed to date someone else!

a gathering of stimulating people of quality under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, often consciously following Horace’s definition of the aims of poetry, “to please and educateâ€

So, this site is a salon?

The Fesitival's in orbit now
The gadgets up will pile
The Emperor wants to start a war
But does it Dogger-style

(xx) Those written by Making Light commentors . .

Well, this is just the other side of the coin from so-called "creation science". A faith-based resolution to scientific issues is always going to be unsatisfactory from the point of view of science.

Similarly, "God" is ultimately not a rational concept; therefore it is inappropirate and useless to try to use the tools of rationalism/empiricism to examine religious issues, except to the extent you reject religion as unscientific.

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